After professing my love for Nine Inch Nails in The Stranger I’m happy to report that the live show was amazing. Featuring a newly shaved and buffed Trent Reznor, the performance was an audio/visual attack. Between strobe-light theatrics, screens raining bugs, guitarist Aaron North’s volatile acrobatics (ending in an instrument-destroying tantrum), and a volume so loud it could compete with a fleet of jets, the band put on one of the best performances I’ve seen all year. It was 100-percent fierce. And to think I’d nearly sworn off arena shows for not providing the same captivating experience as the more intimate club scene.